Grandma's Scrapbook

by Josephine Nobisso, Maureen Hyde (Illustrator)

A scrapbook of memorabilia chronicles the tender and sometimes zany moments shared between Grandma and her granddaughter during their seaside summers. Pages of the lively scrapbook are interspersed with watercolor-rendered photographs of the girl, now a teenager, as she reminisces about their relationship. The last summer in the scrapbook reveals how their roles have changed. Now the girl guides Grandma’s wheelchair to places Grandma once brought her on the back of her bike or in a stroller. This poignant story uplifts and dignifies the experience of aging and loss, tingeing it not with sadness, but with hope and wonder.

Genres: Picture Books

32 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1990

Reviews

[Chris Martinez · Rating 5 out of 5]

A girl visits her grandmother every summer and they fill a scrapbook of their memories. At first the grandmother takes care of the little and the scrapbook, but as the years progress - the roles reverse and the girl grows up. In the end the grown girl is pushing the grandmother in a wheelchair and taking care of the scrapbook.

[Emily Baio · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have been searching for this book for years now. Years. Might I add that I am a librarian, so it's even more embarrassing it took so long to find this? Even before my grandmother passed, this book was special to me. I am so SO happy that I have found it.

[Ending Well · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lovely story- but really only useful for girl's grieving grandmothers like the one here. It certainly would not have resonated with me had my grandmother's died in my childhood.

[Alicia Thompson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely, heartwarming story of the relationship with a girl and her grandmother. My daughter really enjoyed this.